After continuing demonstrations against the newly-installed "reform" communist leaders, a new government with a non-communist majority in the cabinet was formed on 10 December 1989.

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No real progress should be expected or demanded of the democratic elements in their negotiations with the communist factions until the military and political positions of the non-communist resistance is improved.

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While disciplined and transparent approaches to such credit transactions are always in order, never are they more required than at present when so great a danger exists that Western economic, financial and technical assistance is being directed toward sustaining the entrenched forces of the Soviet Communist Party rather than aiding the legitimate, non-communist and reformist opposition in the USSR.

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